William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

“He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who falls from a

rock”- said Titus Maccius Plautus once. They found their only love

from their only hate. William Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet, the

story of two young lovers that lost their lives for love. But who was

responsible? The family feud that had been going on for centuries,

fate, the nurse or Friar Lawrence? In this essay I will be discussing

every point that could have contributed to Romeo and Juliet’s death.

The feud between the two families, the Montagues

and the Capulets is the main theme of the play. The prologue reveals

exactly how the feud will play a major role throughout. The chorus

states:

The fearful passage of their death-marked love,

And the continuance of their parent’s rage,

Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,

Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;

This shows that everything in the play is related to Romeo and

Juliet’s love and the ongoing family feud. The violence is petty at

first but builds up throughout the play.Benvolio from the Montagues

family fights Tybalt of the Capulets family.Romeo and Juliet get

married confidentially, the violence gained pace. Tybalt goes looking

for Romeo but ends up murdering Mercutio, Romeo’s close friend.

Mercutio’s death plays a major event in the play. Mercutio’s death

madden Romeo and Romeo confronts Tybalt. For example when Romeo says “Mercutio's

soul is but a little way above our heads, staying for thine to keep

him company. Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.” Romeo

murders Tybalt. When Romeo was misled by news of Juliet’s death, he

makes up his mind of killing himself too by her dead body. At the tomb

Romeo murders Paris because Paris tried to arrest Romeo. Romeo kills

himself by Juliet’s dead body. Juliet wakes up and realizes what had

happened and kills herself too.